Dale H. Cook wrote:
At 07:13 PM 5/6/2018, Larry Colen wrote:
Nope, that was the internal mic. ... the camera was only a few inches from the
baby birds.
That explains it. I'm not familiar with the Sigma 20, and it will be some time
before I can afford to invest in a prime lens. The 18-270 will have to do for
now.
As long as you have live view and focus peaking, there are some amazing
deals out there in legacy glass. By the same token, the
samyang/rokinon/bowers... manual focus lenses have amazing performance
for their price.
It will be interesting to see how good the mike is in the K-70. Unfortunately I
don't own a mike calibrator to test it.
However, I wouldn't think that with headstones, the light balance would be so
far off that you couldn't get the same effect just by tweaking the various
channels in the raw files. Especially since Lightroom allows you to use
separate curves for each channel. With up to 14 stops of dynamic range in your
raw file, there's a lot of room there for adjustment.
I will try that in a couple of my image editors, but I don't expect to get
Lightroom any time soon. There are still some key pieces of hardware that I
need to upgrade.
You might be able to pick up an old copy of lightroom 5 or 6 for pennies
on the dollar. But the key thing is to shoot raw, and you can always go
back and re-edit your files later.
I am so used to using colored filters that I will likely stick with them,
especially now that I can see the black and white image in live view and don't
have to bracket filtered shots. The filter flip book that I am building should
help me to quickly decide which filter will work best. I also suspect that
getting the effects that I am used to by tweaking the channels could take quite
a while to master as some of the filter transmittance curves are not simple.
Yup, it's a fascinating question. Since each frame basically only costs
you time, then there is little downside to experiment with various
filters, both physical and digital.
Dale H. Cook, 50+ years as an SLR photographer,
Pentax K-70 w/ Pentax-DA 18-270mm lens, using
colored filters for B&W gravestone photography
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